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Police Shootings: How A Culture Of Racism Can Infect Us All

5:19pm June 13, 2017

by Shankar Vedantam

In the aftermath of a police-involved shooting, there's often a familiar debate about what led to it. But research shows there's an underlying cause that we often miss. — In the aftermath of a police-involved shooting, there's often a familiar debate about what led to it. But research shows there's an underlying cause that we often miss. JASON REDMOND / AFP/Getty Images

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